white supremacy Archives - Amy Julia Becker

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A Glimpse of Hope for Healing the Wounds of Racism

Post published:May 20, 2022
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I’ve struggled a bit this past week to understand how much the Buffalo shooting should be understood in a wider context of racism in the United States. Esau McCaulley’s essay…

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The Problem of Insidious White Supremacy

Post published:May 18, 2022
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At church on Sunday, we prayed for the families of the victims of last weekend’s horrific and racially-motivated mass shooting in Buffalo, NY. In our small, predominantly white, New England…

S5 E6 | Black Jesus, White Spaces, and Sacred Beauty with Danté Stewart

Post published:November 16, 2021
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Black literature powerfully expands our theological imaginations. Danté Stewart, writer, speaker, and author of Shoutin’ in the Fire, talks with Amy Julia Becker about literature, theology, Black Jesus, and finding…

S4 E15 | Reparations: Imagining Ways to Repair and Restore with Duke Kwon and Greg Thompson

Post published:April 27, 2021
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Why should Christians in particular participate in the work of reparations? Duke Kwon and Greg Thompson, the co-authors of Reparations, talk with Amy Julia about white supremacy, the harms and…

Praying for the End of White Supremacy

Post published:January 7, 2021
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Yesterday, January 6, at noon, I interviewed Jemar Tisby about his new book, How to Fight Racism. At the same time that we talked about the way understanding history helps…